Posted on 02/21/2024 7:32:06 PM PST by nickcarraway
The incident, which took place in October 2020, started when a woman called the pizzeria to report what she believed was race-based discrimination. The employee who answer the phone called her the [N-word] multiple times and threatened to hang her, according to court documents.
The Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination has ordered a Boston pizza shop to pay a customer $105,000 in emotional damages after an employee called her racist slurs and threatened to physically hurt her, according to court documents.
The decision was made by Hearing Officer Jason Barshak and announced in January, the Dorchester Reporter first reported. The decision said Stash’s Pizza is liable for an October 2020 incident where, Barshak wrote, an employee went on a racist rant against an African American customer when she tried to report bad customer service to a manager at the restaurant.
The incident started with the woman calling Stash’s Pizza on Blue Hill Avenue in Dorchester to order a large cheese pizza. When she arrived to pick up her order, a white man behind the counter told her they did not have an order under her name and offered her a small cheese pizza instead, saying “‘you can take it or leave it’ in a loud and rude manner,” according to the complaint.
After the customer left the restaurant to get food elsewhere, she decided to call Stash’s to report the incident, which she thought was based on her race, to a manager, the complaint said.
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Nice headline.
I wonder how many fo the “victims” friends call her that.
I wonder all the music she listens to is peppered with that.
If your friends call you that and the music you listen to is full of that, hard to see it causes you “emotional damage”.
I’m going to call BS on this.
The business may lost the order, perhaps. But they aren’t going to not sell the order they made to sell just because of race.
Now if the place has crap service and treats you weird, unless you’ve vot past bad history with them, whole other issue. This emotional damage is over the top.
Racism is such a blatant scam.
A white person would never get 105K for being called a cracker.
Hate on me all you want. Before my wife finished nursing school she use to deliver pizza. NO ONE wanted to deliver to a certain section of the neighborhood because they never got a tip or they always called later to complain about the pizza demanding a free one after.
Feel free to guess the general ethnicity of the neighborhood.
“Nice headline.”
Nice way to make a buck - employee has a friend claim racism and then sue ‘the man’ and split the proceeds.
Ah, against FR tradition, I read the linked article. So, it was an employee that was then fired. Still the fault of the business. Plus, lots more bad news about that place. Hopefuly she gets her money before it closes.
My last trip to Massachusetts was in May 2023 to honor a fallen, USAF pilot training, classmate.
I do not need to ever go to that screwed up state again.
BS? Read the article, the owner admitted to the whole matter, blaming a fired employee.
“ which she thought was based on her race, to a manager, the complaint said.”
Probably wasn’t. Rude jerks are rude jerks. A lot of them in the world. They’re rude to everybody.
But if the details of the phone call are true, can’t say that’s not using race.
A Boston pizza shop rude to a customer? It’s part of the “charm” of the experience.
Owning a small business in America is now high risk. Chinese small businesses don’t face this.
It was the people who annoy you.
I have written off visiting a lot of cities, states, and countries. Why should I visit places I don’t feel welcome and/or safe.
The owner of the pizza shop should be in prison.
Exactly.
Well said.
When she called a third time, the man asked her whether she knew “‘how many [N-word]s like you get hung’ at Franklin Park,’” which is across the street from the restaurant.
The woman started crying at this point as she “started thinking about how Black slaves had been hung from trees,” according to court documents. Minutes later, she received a text message from a different number — not the one she’d been calling to reach Stash’s — that said “f–ing [N-word].”
When she called the number that texted her, the same man who she’d been speaking to answered and told her that he was “off work,” “ready to hang a [N-word],” and asked her where she was, according to the court filing.
Very over-the-top: Criminal harassment by communications.
And now you know the rest of the story.
“Stash’s Pizza Pust” sounds like an odd name for an illicit drug, or a really weird cocktail.
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